Warn That Man is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell and Finlay Currie.
It was based on the 1941 play Warn That Man! by Vernon Sylvaine which had run for ten months on the West End stage, with Harker reprising his original role. The film was made at Welwyn Studios, with sets designed by the art director Charles Gilbert.
The plot is noted for the similarity of the later The Eagle Has Landed which also concerns a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill from rural England.
Premise
At a country house during the Second World War, a German actor, who looks uncannily like a British peer, takes his place as part of a German attempt to kidnap the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, when he visits the estate. Unfortunately for their plans, the niece of the peer arrives unannounced, along with her RAF pilot fiance, and two of his new friends, who had rescued him at sea when he was shot down.
Cast
Gordon Harker as George Hawkins
Raymond Lovell as Hausemann / Lord Buckley
Finlay Currie as Captain Andrew Fletcher
Philip Friend as John Cooper
Jean Kent as Frances Lane
Frederick Cooper as Charles / Frampton
Carl Jaffe as Schultz
John Salew as Wilson
Veronica Rose as Miss Conway
Anthony Hawtrey as Brent
Anthony Holles as Waiter
Patrick Aherne as Mellows
Frank Bagnall as Lehmann
Ferdy Mayne as German Radio Operator
Friedrich Richter as Wolheim
Leonard Sharp as Miles
References
Bibliography
Fox, Jo. Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic, 2007.